| SMP works, no need to disable mpbios anymore. Must use '''if=ide''' as the scsi interface will result in sd0(siop0) errors during install; recommend using the e1000 network driver as well. More information can be found [http://tenforward.libpcap.net:8080/2011/10/OpenBSD-5.0-supports-SMP-under-KVM here].

| During boot the system prints the following warning: "No SOF interrupts have been received. This USB EHCI controller is unusable." As a result, no keyboard and mouse functionality from the console. Must install with automatic networking enabled, and login via the network to use it. Also warns at boot "rtls0: Failure resetting PHY" but networking seems to still work.

| During boot the system prints the following warning: "No SOF interrupts have been received. This USB EHCI controller is unusable." As a result, no keyboard and mouse functionality from the console. Must install with automatic networking enabled, and login via the network to use it. Also warns at boot "rtls0: Failure resetting PHY" but networking seems to still work.

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|-

+

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| OpenIndiana Build 151a (Desktop)

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| 64

+

| qemu-kvm-0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze

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| Intel Core i7

+

| 64

+

|Works

+

| During boot the system prints the following warning: "No SOF interrupts have been received. This USB EHCI controller is unusable." However, the mouse and keyboard work fine via the VNC console. Also warns at boot "rtls0: Failure resetting PHY" but networking works fine. Installed using "Solaris -> OpenSolaris" settings in virt-manager.

SMP works, no need to disable mpbios anymore. Must use if=ide as the scsi interface will result in sd0(siop0) errors during install; recommend using the e1000 network driver as well. More information can be found here.

OpenBSD 4.9

64

qemu-kvm-0.14, linux 2.6.38.4 (Fedora 15 Beta)

AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core

64

Works

Disable mpbios as with 4.5

OpenBSD 4.8

32

kvm-83, linux 2.6.18 (CentOS 5.5)

Intel E5700

64

Works

Disable mpbios as with 4.5

OpenBSD 4.7

64

qemu-kvm-0.12.5

Intel

64

Works

Need e1000 driver. (scsi driver does not work). Ide works out of the box. disabling the mpbios is not needed. Done with Linux 2.6.34.2 host kernel.

4.0 would hang on me at the same place if i booted /bsd.mp but not if i boot /bsd (uniprocessor kernel) - Buck
4.5 can be made to boot by disabling mpbios as described here; this is a workaround though, not a fix - Maxim

OpenBSD 4.5

64

kvm-84

Intel

64

Works

Use e1000 drivers. Install from CD works, but then you must do the following at the next boot prompt: "bsd -c", "disable mpbios", then "quit"

Make this permanent by using "config -ef /bsd" as root, once everything has booted. -- Garry Dolley

UNIX Family: Solaris/OpenSolaris

Guest

Guest bitness

Host version

Host cpu

Host bitness

Status

Comments

Solaris 10 U1

32

kvm-12

Intel

64

Works

later releases will detect the CPU is 64 bit capable and try to default to run a 64 bit kernel and fail, for those you have to override Solaris autodetection by adding "kernel/unix" to the kernel multiboot entry in GRUB

Might need additional patch to kvm for kvm kernel longmode. My qemu-kvm was already patched. Had to switch of 'acpi', 'apic' and 'pae' features in guest configuration. Guest machine-type set to pc-0.10. Use -m 512 -net nic,model=e1000.

OpenSolaris 2008.05

64

kvm-69

Intel

64

Works

Use -m 512 -net nic,model=e1000

Milax 0.3.2

32

kvm-62

Intel

64

Works

Use the kvm option -net nic,model=rtl8139 and add atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0,atapi-other-dma-enabled=0 to the kernel line in the grub menu for older releases of Milax http://www.milax.org/ in version 0.3.2 choose the Qemu grub menu entry ; tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 by BerndSchemmer

Belenix 0.7.1

64

kvm-62

Intel

64

Works

Note: older releases of Belenix only work in text mode; tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 by BerndSchemmer

Solaris 10 U6

32 & 64

kvm-62

Intel

64

Mostly Works (see note)

Note: the grub menu entry for Solaris 10 created by the installer is wrong, to make it work add kernel/unix to the line beginning with kernel ; tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 by BerndSchemmer

OpenSolaris 2008.11

64

kvm-62

Intel

64

Works

tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 by BerndSchemmer

OpenSolaris 2009.06

32, 64

qemu-kvm-0.11.0-0ubuntu6.3

Intel

64

Works

Used "-vga std" but don't recall why.

Solaris 11 Express 2010.11

32, 64

qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.113.el6_0.8

Intel

64

Works but without USB support

During boot the system prints the following warning: "No SOF interrupts have been received. This USB EHCI controller is unusable." As a result, no keyboard and mouse functionality from the console. Must install with automatic networking enabled, and login via the network to use it. Also warns at boot "rtls0: Failure resetting PHY" but networking seems to still work.

OpenIndiana Build 151a (Desktop)

64

qemu-kvm-0.12.5+dfsg-5+squeeze

Intel Core i7

64

Works

During boot the system prints the following warning: "No SOF interrupts have been received. This USB EHCI controller is unusable." However, the mouse and keyboard work fine via the VNC console. Also warns at boot "rtls0: Failure resetting PHY" but networking works fine. Installed using "Solaris -> OpenSolaris" settings in virt-manager.